From ASC CLOSE UP 
Vol 92(2011)
What’s The Best Professional Advice you’ve received?
JACK COUFFER, ASC
From editor Irving Lerner: ‘Cut out all the comin’s and goin’s’
BARRY MARKOWITZ, ASC
‘There’s only one way to shoot this thing : Two Ways’
CRESCENZO NOTARILE, ASC
From Owen Roizman :” There’s no need to have an ego as a man. Let your work on that screen be your ego”
DENNIS MUREN, ASC
Jim Danforth taught me the value of critical thinking, especially about your own work, and how to see your work as the audience will see it. And during THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, George Lucas showed me a helicopter shot and asked if I could add a creature running in the ground, which at the time seemed impossible because of the six axis camera motion. He said, ‘ Give it some thought,’ and within 15 minutes I had a solution,That Taught me that a right answer might be one thought away.
TOBIAS SCHLIESSLER, ASC
‘Don’t shoot your demo reel.Be true to the story.’
DEAN SEMLER, ASC, ACS
From George Miller:’Just be bold,Dino!Be as bold as yo want!’
BRUNO DELBONNEL, ASC, ACS
When I was an AC, a gaffer told me, ‘Don’t run on a set, ‘because you show everyone that you probably forgot something. I still don’t run on set, and I try not to forget too many things’.
TOM HOUGHTON, ASC
I received early encouragement from Woody Omens,ASC; and Walter Lassally,BSC taught me many crucial concepts over the course of several projects. I also appreciated the opportunity to be on set of Fat City, where Conrad Hall, ASC was executing innovative ideas using 8k (4x2K) umbrella lights for the fight scenes.In dailies,John Huston would just put his head on down and listen, trusting Conrad to deliver their visual plan.
DANTE SPINOTTI, ASC, AIC
It was actually given to my son when he was getting ready to direct his thesis film at the American Film Institute.Jay Fortune, a New York gaffer I ‘d just completed a film with, suggested to him, ‘ Don’t lose your sense of humor,even when everything seems to be going in the opposite direction.’
XAVIER GROBET, ASC, AMC
Life is like an airplane: you either get on board , or you don’t . It’s up to you.
DAN MINDEL, ASC
When I was a focus puller on a movie with Adrian Biddle, BSC, I told him I did not have focus marks, and he said ‘ Feel The Force. ‘ I use that advice all the time.
LUCIANO TOVOLI, ASC, AIC
‘The Edges of the frame are often more interesting then the center’
To Be Continued… –つづく…
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